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Challenging the medical model
- Authors:
- DIAMOND Bob, HARDY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 129, September 2004, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
There has been an increase in users' involvement in mental health care. One area in its infancy is a role as teachers and trainers of psychiatrists. This article describes teaching sessions for psychiatric registrars, reports that useful lessons have been learned, and challenges the dominance of a medical model of mental health care, arguing psychiatrists exert a disproportionate amount of power and influence over users. The sessions addressed personal experiences and reflections, the user movement and self-help, the social context of distress, professional power and efforts to devolve power, therapeutic alliances and shared meanings, psychological frameworks, medication limitations, and the value of uncertainty and curiosity. Registrars were asked to evaluate a session. Concludes the issues raised help to offer a more comprehensive framework for making sense of mental health difficulties.
Research
- Author:
- WALLCRAFT Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, July 2003, p.39.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Briefly explores the differences between service user led research and traditional medical models.
Lived experience practitioners and the medical model: world’s colliding?
- Authors:
- BYRNE Louise, HAPPELL Brenda, REID-SEARL Kerry
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 25(3), 2016, pp.217-223.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Background: Australian mental health policy requires that mental health services facilitate meaningful and genuine consumer participation in all aspects of mental health services. Roles for practitioners who work from their own experience of significant mental health challenges and mental health service use have been implemented in many services to promote participation and the development of more consumer focused services. Aims: To enhance understanding of perspectives of individuals working in lived experience roles to more closely understand their experiences and opinions about these roles. Method: A grounded theory study interviews were conducted with 13 lived experience practitioners. Results: The medical model was a core category arising from this work. Participants described the medical model as a prevailing culture within mental health services from their personal and professional experiences. This culture imposed a major limitation on the implementation, effectiveness and development of lived experience roles and themselves as individuals. It was also seen as a major limitation to the progress of Recovery orientated reform. Conclusions: The development of Recovery oriented services requires a strong lived experience practitioner workforce, with appropriate resourcing and support available. The current medical model approach requires critique to facilitate reform and avoid tokenism. (Publisher abstract)
Challenging paternalism and promoting the user participation of older people with dementia in multi disciplinary assessment
- Author:
- MALYNOWSKYJ. Pawlina
- Publisher:
- Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 44p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Surbiton
Dissertation demonstrating why the medical model on its own in inappropriate for an understanding of people with dementia and offering an alternative approach from an anti discriminatory perspective, which can inform the multidisciplinary assessment of people with dementia in line with community care principles.
Patients' involvement in medical audit in general practice
- Author:
- NEWTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(3), May 1996, pp.142-149.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Considers how patients might be involved in medical audit. It argues that there are ethical, political, and clinical justifications for widening the current 'medical model' to include patients' views of mainly sociopsychological matters, and that these are intrinsic to the delivery of health care and evaluations of its quality. The potential barriers to such involvement are doctor-patient relationships; the cultural of general practice; the existing pattern of audit; and the lack of organization amongst patients. None of these barriers is seen as insurmountable and the paper concludes that audit could be extended to include practice-based initiatives within medically defined communities of interest.